INSTRUCTORS

The settings you choose may vary depending on how actively you participate in Canvas organization sites and how "plugged in" to your Canvas course sites you want to be. We recognize that everyone will have different preferences. With that in mind, we put together the following table containing our recommendations to help guide you in selecting your Canvas notification settings:

Keep in mind:

These settings are applied to all courses and organizations across Canvas; you cannot adjust notification settings for an individual course or organization.

If your department uses a vanity email domain (e.g., @business.fsu.edu, @med.fsu.edu, @ringling.org), these addresses MUST be added to your Canvas account in order to successfully reply to a Canvas email notification using that email account. Otherwise, your reply won't actually send to your intended recipient.

To ensure compliance with various laws and regulations, FSU employees should NOT respond to emails using their personal email accounts (Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, etc.). Please only add your FSU email accounts to Canvas and refrain from forwarding your business emails to a personal email account.

Submission Comments: these are assignment submission comments entered by your students. These notifications may include some context, but often do not. To ensure that you receive these submission comments, we recommend that you use the email notification setting below. If you have more students than you can keep track of with these submission comments, we recommend communicating to your students that they should email you directly rather than using a submission comment to ask a question about their grade. This way, students will need to provide you with appropriate context for their question/concern regarding the assignment in question.

COURSE ACTIVITIES

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Due Date

Send weekly summary

No

Changing an Assignment due date

Creating an assignment, quiz, or discussion

Changing an Assignment from non-graded to graded

Grading Policies

Send weekly summary OR do not send me anything

No

Change in Assignment Group Grade Weight

Change in the Gradebook Total Point column's display (percentage/point value)

Course Content

Send daily or weekly summary

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

Changes to:

Page

Quiz content

Assignment content

Files

Send daily summary

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

New file added to your course. Notifications will not be sent to the user who uploads the file. If the Files tab is disabled within a course, then students will not receive this notification.

Announcement

Immediately

Yes

New announcement in your course or group. Instructors and TAs can receive notifications for course groups (i.e., student groups within course site) without being added directly to a group. For this to happen, you have to be enrolled in the course and enable this Announcement notification preference.

Assignment submission comment entered by student. The notification will include the text of the submission comment and may include the creator of the comment, the course, and the assignment name. If you have more students than you can keep track of with these submission comments, we recommend communicating to your students that they should email you directly rather than using a submission comment to ask a question about their grade.

DISCUSSIONS

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Discussion

Send daily summary, or send weekly summary

No

New discussion topic in your course

Discussion Post

Send daily summary

No

New discussion post in a topic you're subscribed to

CONVERSATIONS

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Added to conversation

Immediately

Yes

You are added to a conversation. Please note: you will need to log into Canvas to view any attachments that are sent via Canvas conversations.

Conversation message

Immediately

Yes

New inbox messages. Please note: you will need to log into Canvas to view any attachments that are sent via Canvas conversations.

Conversations created by me

Immediately

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

You created a conversation. We recommend this option so that there is a record of all messages that you send within Canvas.

SCHEDULING

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Student Appointment signups

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

Student appointment signup

Appointment signups

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

New appointment on your calendar. You will get this notification if you are signed up for an appointment by another user.

For example, an organization site offers an appointment group and users are required to sign up in groups. After one group member makes an appointment, any other group member with this preference activated will receive a notification.

Appointment cancellations

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

Yes

Appointment cancellation

Appointment availability

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

New appointment time slots are available for signup

Calendar

Immediately, or send daily summary

At your discretion: choose your preferred option

New or changed items on your course calendar

CONFERENCES

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Recording ready

Send daily digest

No

A conference recording is ready for viewing

ALERTS

Email Notification

Text Notification

What Triggers This Notification

Content Link Error

At your discretion, but we recommend Immediately

No

A student encountering a broken link in your course site, or trying to access an item that has not been published but should be published (e.g,. clicking on an module item to complete an assignment, but the assignment is unpublished). This notification contains the location & content of a failed link that your student encountered so that you can more easily fix the situation. Students do not know that this email notification has been triggered.